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  Joe Pramberger was the lead designer and VP of Manufacturing for Steinway & Sons for 29 years.  Soon after the Steinway family sold the company, Joe designed his own line of pianos, with new designs. The following are just a few of the new upgrades:

1. Asymmetrically Tapered Soundboards – This feature, developed and patented by Steinway and Sons in 1936-1937 is credited, by Steinway, as being largely responsible for their tone quality.  Their patents having expired, Joe was free to incorporate them into the Pramberger design.
2. Tunneled Bridges – Another Steinway expired patent where the underside of the bridges is cut away to allow more flexibility at the treble break.  Steinway says that this improvement radically improved their treble/bass break.  The  bridges in Pramberger pianos is virtually identical.
3. Asymmetrically Crown Soundboard – This places the crown of the soundboard directly under the curving treble bridge, where  downbearing is greatest, providing strength and optimizing tone quality.

Left to Right: General Manager,Tom Bonvegna, Owner,Steve Cohen, and the late Joe Pramberger



The Pramberger legacy began over 225 years ago with the birth of Joseph Johann Pramberger in Austria in 1779.

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PRAMBERGER PIANOS    Joseph Pramberger's work and design philosophy is being carried on by a small group of excellent piano engineers who were part of the Pramberger design team from the very beginning of the process.

• 1950 Anton Pramberger family immigrates to New York City. Anton begins work at Steinway & Sons®.

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